Vienna coffee
- noun
- /viˈɛnə ˈkɔfi/
:
café vienés
- The rich whipped cream on top of a Vienna coffee makes it a decadent treat.
Examples
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He ordered a Vienna coffee with his breakfast at the café.
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The waiter served a Vienna coffee adorned with a sprinkle of cocoa on the whipped cream.
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After dinner, she treated herself to a hot Vienna coffee.
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I ordered a Vienna coffee at the café.
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Have you ever tried Vienna coffee?
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After dinner, she treated herself to a hot Vienna coffee topped with creamy whipped cream.
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He enjoyed a delicious Vienna coffee while sitting at the café terrace.
How Creamy
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound signals a regional/style relation (coffee in the Vienna/Viennese style), so a learner who knows 'Vienna' and 'coffee' can infer it denotes a particular kind of coffee. However, the specific feature (topped with whipped cream) is a cultural convention not predictable from the constituents alone, so the relation gives a useful hint but not the full meaning.
Etymology
Vienna coffee may come from the famous coffee houses of Vienna, where people often served hot coffee with a small amount of whipped cream on top. That image explains why today it means 'a coffee or espresso topped with whipped cream'.